Mauricio Pochettino's perfect start to life at the Tottenham helm continued on Thursday evening as they booked their place in the Europa League group stage by brushing aside AEL Limassol with a 3-0 victory at White Hart Lane.

Harry Kane opened the scoring on the stroke of half-time after missing a sixth minute penalty before Paulinho and a spot-kick by Andros Townsend wrapped up the win after the break.

It is fair to say things could not have gone much better for the former Argentina international...

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino has backed Erik Lamela to emerge as a star this season, after his influential contribution to his side's 2-1 win against AEL Limassol in the Europa League play-off tie.

Spurs were trailing until Pochettino threw Lamela into the action for the final 18 minutes of the game and the Argentine midfielder's introduction swiftly changed dynamic of the match.

Pochettino joined Spurs from Southampton in the summer and has been tasked with getting the London club back into the Champions League for the first time in four years -- something which, for the first time this...